[vsnet-chat 2397] Re: announcement of MisV discoveries

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

Re: [vsnet-chat 2396] Re: announcement of MisV discoveries

> Another option would be to post the discovery
> information on a web site (there are lots of free
> sites available) and send a single small email
> announcing the  listing of a group of newly discovered
> stars. You could even include images there for the
> ones of special interest, making the announcement more
> informative and helpful.

    Please don't discotinue submitting discovery reports and observations
to the mailing list.  There are already several "new variable" pages,
as the MISAO project has already one, but are rarely truly functioning
to the people outside the project group.  Variable star researchers and
observers are often too busy to check all such pages to see whether
a new variable star has been observed otherwise.  Indeed, I have no time
to check Web pages to collate new VS reports (TmzV, MisV etc.) with them.
The reports to VSNET are duly archived, information automatically extracted,
and they become publicly available using a "single" interface.  Each e-mail
provides a unique URL (VSNET html e-mail archive), which can be cited as
a reference in papers (the existence of such URLs is one of the reason
why "single variable - single posting" has been preferred.

    Of course, citation of image or other related URLs are (as Yoshida-san
has already done) is highly welcomed.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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